{"id":14812,"date":"2009-10-02T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T20:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14812"},"modified":"2009-10-02T15:48:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T20:48:50","slug":"and-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14812","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;And so it begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&#038;article=65147\">Stars and Stripes<\/a> reports that Tricare has hiked their inpatient fee nearly 21% for retirees under 65 using civilian hospitals;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TRICARE Standard is the military\u2019s fee-for-service insurance option. The inpatient cost share for retirees under age 65 and their family members was increased to $645 a day from $535. The actual formula for beneficiaries is $645 a day, or 25 percent of total hospital charges, whichever is less.<\/p>\n<p>Families of active duty members who use Standard for civilian hospital stays will see a more modest increase in their daily charge, from $15.65 a day to $16.30, or $25 per admission, whichever is greater.<\/p>\n<p>The increase for retirees stunned and angered at least one service association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis shocking announcement is extremely disappointing, given your public assurances earlier this year that the Defense Department would not be proposing any TRICARE fee increases for [fiscal] 2010,\u201d retired Navy Vice Adm. Norbert R. Ryan Jr., president of the Military Officers Association of America told Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Ryan\u2019s protest letter was sent hours after TRICARE officials unveiled their new inpatient fees for Standard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s how it begins every time. It&#8217;s always veteran health care that suffers first. Now where are the trolls that always tell me that I&#8217;m just scaring veterans?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars and Stripes reports that Tricare has hiked their inpatient fee nearly 21% for retirees &hellip; <a title=\"&#8230;And so it begins\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14812\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230;And so it begins<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-veteran-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}